Quotes about Innocence

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.

Just as a happy child cannot mis-hug, the sincere heart cannot mis-pray.

What child, whilst summer is happening, bothers to think that summer will end? What child when snow is on the ground stops to remember that not long ago the ground was snowless?

Don't grow up to fast, darling. Age is inevitable, but if you nuture a childlike heart, you'll never ever grow old.

I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter. I didn't know that they had devised plots against me. Jeremiah 11:19

As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile.

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman.

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

The irony of all this is that God of perfect justice is both the one for whom we long and the one whom we dread. We long for someone to set things right, to punish those who terrorize, molest, kills and enslave the innocent... we want a judge with total power and piercing commitment to righteousness. But when his eyes turn on us, we realize that we too, are guilty. We, too, deserve his judgement.

We say to our children, "Act like grown-ups," but Jesus said to the grown-ups, "Be like children".